Automated Lego Road

The road consists of two equal MDF boards. 244x122 cm. Unnecessary space is cut out and with 5x5 cm beams, the head space for the train is created.

Here the track is layed out to see what is possible. After fixing the rails to board with small screws, the saw path is drawn by pencil using a Lego technic brick.
Dots are drawn which are afterwards connected to each other to create a perfect centered line.

The result

Check if cars can pass each other at the 'almost crash in to each other' location.

Here the two lanes are the closest together to create a small section of two way traffic.

The markings proven to be harder to create as you might think.

The original Road plan. The final result differs a bit. Changing lanes was one of my wishes but was not possible for esthetic reasons.

Building the lego road

Lego cars are cool , but unfortunately they're mostly standing idle. That needed to change! So I've built an automated road for my Lego cars. Now the cars can drive without any built in motors. This makes it suitable to connect any Lego car available which was one of my wishes when I started this project. It took quite some tweaking to make the ride smooth and stable.

It's 2.4 meter long and 1 meter wide.

Lego 4435 Car and caravan Test drive - Lego Road #003

Test driving the Lego 4435 car with caravan.

Lego Road update #005 Test Drive Wide load 4203 Excavator transport

Test Drive Wide load 4203 Excavator transport. Is the system capable of pulling a trailer with excavator?

Racing with the Octan 60025 Grand Prix Truck - Lego Road #009

LEGO City Grand Prix racecar 60025 - Speeding!

Lego Road update #002 Inner workings

The underground infrastructure of the Lego Automated Road. This Lego 9 volt train pulls the vehicles on the deck above.

Lego Road update #004 Test drive 3221 Semi with trailer

How does the road cope with long trucks like the 3221 Lego Semi?

Lego Road update #006 Painting the road

Painting the roads asphalt color. Several layers were painted to create a nice and solid color..

Lego 60060 Auto transporter - Lego Road #008 Test drive trucks

Driving two large trucks at the same time. One is the 60060 Auto transporter, the other is a custom build TV truck. The TV trucks weighs around 600grams, which is very heavy for a lego truck of that size.